Daily AncestorMabel
Mabel is an old nickname for Mehitable, found in American records of the 1700s and 1800s.
Mabel was a full name of its own, a shortening of Amabel, but the Connecticut State Library's list of 18th and 19th century nicknames also gives it as a short form of Mehitable.
The same woman can be Mehitable in one record and Mabel in the next, for example a birth under one name and a marriage under the other. Match age, place and relatives before you join the two.
As seen in a recordTown marriage register, 1830; her baptism gives her name as Mehitable
Ansel Kimbrough and Mabel Pomeroy, both of this town, married 3 Aug. 1830
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Daily Ancestor. "Mabel." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/nicknames/mabel. Last checked 2026-10-15.